Peter Bunclark said: > I quote this out of interest more than an argument, from > http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html > > "The team has been watching Opportunity's power very carefully. It seems > that Opportunity is losing some of the power boost it received during the > last cleaning event. The solar array wake up time has been getting later > each day and is currently 9:48 Mars Local Solar Time. The team has been > planning accordingly, taking steps to preserve power where appropriate." > > I find it fascinating that the only bunch of humans currently operating on > a planet other than Earth find it compelling to use local Solar Time.
For a solar power array problem, this is surprising? UTC would say *nothing* about the problem; as it is, we can see that it's currently taking the best part of 4 hours to do something and/or missing 4 hours of useful sunlight. [Assuming for the sake of discussion that sunrise is 06:00.] -- Clive D.W. Feather | Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 Internet Expert | Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Fax: +44 870 051 9937 Demon Internet | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Mobile: +44 7973 377646 Thus plc | |
